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Show TOWN WRECKED BY WATER. Mountain of Water Causes Heavy Property Loss at Blsbee, Arizona. Dlsbeo, Ariz. A cloudburst Tuosday afternoon did S100.000 dnmago In Dlsbeo. Ono sldo ot Main street, including in-cluding tho postotllco, In less than ten minutes was changed from two hundred hun-dred yards of big stores, costly saloons sa-loons nnd business offices ton mass of wreckngo by rocks, water and mud that crimu tumbling down, off tho mountain side Postmnstor M. E. Cas-sidy Cas-sidy and Sheriff Jack White, who wero In tho postmnster's office, narrowly es-enped es-enped with their lives, as did tho forco of eighteen girls employed In tho postofllco, when tho Inrush ot water almost without warning struck tho sldo of tho building and filled It to n depth of six feet. Hugo bouldors and tons of dirt and rocks slid into tho first floor of the postofllco, whero tho forco wns at work, 4 |